If 'bothered,' why didn't senator act sooner?

3:00 PM,
Feb. 20, 2014

Written by

William Cutler, Hendersonville

Really? Is that what Senator Apodaca really said? You quote him, "We've got the Duke facility in Arden sitting up here with 91 acres of coal ash, and it has always bothered me (my emphasis added). ... We've got to do something." Tom Apodaca has been in the N.C. Senate for 12 years. If he was so "bothered," why didn't he do something about it before it got out of hand?Apodaca's self-serving remark is an attempt to avoid any responsibility for the seepage of coal ash into the area's groundwater. Gov. Pat McCrory has ...